/lit/ - Literature

>>12453328
That would be nice if not for the shitty books

>>12453328
Look at all those new, unread books.

>I can't show people by my knowledge and wit that I've read lots of books, so I'll just show them all the books I bought

Not impressed.

someone occasionally posts this insane library that focuses on poli sci and philosophy

he lives in DC or something. wish he would post more--anyone know what i'm talking about/save the images?

you don't need more than 30 books, sweaty

>>12453444
>polisci and philsophy
Imagine being this much of an autistic worthless NEET.
>duuuuhhhh I program C
>I make $200k/year and do nothing
>I read books by loser incels
>I pretend I'm not a loser incel
>N-nothing means anything!
>DID I JUST HEAR SOMEONE SAY CULURAL MARXISM?
>Don't they know that doesn't even exist?
>tfw no smart gf as if women are supposed to be intellectual
>why did my wife leave me ;_;

>>12453444
You mean this dude?

>>12453471

>>12453490

YES

who is he/what does he do? you have more?

probably the nicest library i've seen on /lit

>>12453471

wow you're a fucking worthless shit

>>12453490
>>12453537
I am also interested. I live in DC and would seriously like to talk to him in person.

>>12453537
>>12453567
>>/lit/thread/S12174177

>>12453567
>>12453583

is he troll? is he for real?

that's some serious fucking gear

>>12453328
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KnwTepKdU&t=4s
This is OP

>>12453328
I’ve been slowly replacing my old paperback with Franklin, Easton and Folio editions.

>>12453615

>>12453615
>>12453626
God those editions are making me mad. I'd prefer the paperbacks.

Objectively the best personal library on lit

>>12453972
that guy who had 95% /lit/ memes took that price imo.
>>12453592
I'd be legit terrified of fires living there. Imagine having to move that.
The guy must be rich. Good for him.

>>12453626
>>12453615
"thank you for the invitation to hang out anon, but I really need to get going... I have an urgent... thing... I need to do" tier

>>12453972
>Evola
>Heidegger
yikes
oof
lets unpack this
who hurt you

bump

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>>12453996

that's the glowworm library in DC. it's privately owned. what did you all want to know?

>>12453972
>The Search for Life in the Universe
>US Army Survival Manual
>Improvised Munitions Handbook
>Assassination- The Death of President John F. Kennedy
>How to Disappear

Based and schizo-pilled. You look like the kind of guy who strikes up deep political and philosophical conversations on public transport.

Out of town right now but if this thread is still up when I'm back tomorrow I may post some pictures

/r/ing the pic of the shelves with all the American foreign policy books. Thanks!

>>12453444
that's a computer rendering, just thought i'd point out the obvious

>>12453615
>>12453626
too neat and orderly desu

What is the point of this thread?
Anyone can have a nice library as long as they're rich.

>>12454765

money doesnt buy taste

>>12453328
This is my main shelf and probably the only one I'd keep if Marie Kondo kicked down my door. Shelf is 20"/50cm wide. They are about a subject that I love, and just small enough to pack up and move on a handcart with the rest of my possessions. I've got a couple of much larger shelves, but I wouldn't care if most of those books disappeared. They are:

nostalgic TimeLife series on aircraft I read as a kid
cookbooks
western canon and literature I picked up living on the east coast and Hawaii
four-wheeling magazines and car repair manuals
D&D books
Army stuff
Will Durant's histories
archaeology books about Mexico/Aztecs/Mayans
a sprinkling of random library discards bought for a dollar

>>12454813
With no money you can't buy any books at all.
You can just make a virtual library if you want to make a good taste library.

>>12453471
Extrapolating a bit there buddy.

>>12454840

wow i guesss theres nothing between being rich and being broke, economy is like a light switch.

>>12454817
i love loeb classics

>>12454855
Same. The bindings and paper are quality, they're going to outlast me.

>>12453328
I have a Tolkien collection.

>>12453328
>anyone actually have a serious collection?
Books arent for collecting you pseud. You have to read them. Not just stack them up to make it seem like you are smart.

>>12453615
Looks a little try-hard but some nice looking copies and good taste overall

>>12454817
utterly ascended collection

>>12454817
Jealous. No Eriugena though?

>>12453537
>>12453567
That's Rapture. A cancerous in every sense of the word polsci grad student/postgrad slave that mindlessly hoards books, most of which he doesn't read. Likes to chest beat about being an renaissance man and intellectual titan while posting shelves of absolutely pointless and incoherent collections of undergrad math textbooks with stray embarrassingly pop-sci lit next to random works on technical aspects of modern warfare next to oriental poetry and Russian political history and treatises on penis shapes and mating calls of slow loris (none read of course). Lately has reorganized his pseud dumpster to be more topical, so everyone doesn't point and laugh the moment he posts. You can find him by his trip c1y4ssWAA9x and by strings of vapid posts full of namedropping always accompanied by pictures of art with camel case filenames.

>>12453328
Read Seneca de tranquilitate animi 9.4-7
then you will realise you are a pseud even in the eyes of a roman

>>12455405
I liked the part about Alexander's arse.

mine

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>>12454374
I remember that guy posting, he has a current events blog. Maybe it's in the linked thread.

>>12455466
>library
based
>carpet
>spotlights
>globus bar
cringe

My kindle > your shelves

>>12455478
nvm, I looked through that thread, it's not the same guy or library. the guy in that thread has been around a while too, though (or someone larping as him), I recognize that tirade about the proles. shame, was hoping to see the other one, the one with the blog, pop up. he was sick or something, hope he's okay

>>12453583
Ha! My autism shelf is in there

>>12455493
cringe

>>12455450
you must be able to read latin then!
>quadraginta milia librorum alexandriae arserunt
"40 thousand books went up alexanders arse"

>>12455487
Well, the globus bar is empty. Was supposed to be a present for a friend who likes to drink, but he didn't like it either and gave it back to me. Feels bad. But i kinda like it, just as i like the carpet more than the floor underneath it (ugliest tiles you have ever seen). But since my library grows, i will eventually buy new shelves and the spotlights gonna yield.

>>12455493
>can enjoy reading on his kindle
I kind of envy you.

>>12455526
Get wooden flooring and put a nice rug on it. That would make it much comfier.

>>12455536
I would in a heartbeat, but i only rented this place and won't spent so many cash just to make it comfy for the owner.

>>12455466

I like this a lot. Corner libraries are best libraries. Great chair too.

>>12455466
Maximum comfy. I like the globus bar. Would hide ouzo and shot glasses in there.

>>12455223
>>12455293
thanks anons. Eriugena is in there, hidden on the second shelf behind Aristoteles. And Duns Scotus' treatise on God as first principle is the narrow grey book laying flat in the middle-left of the bottom shelf. Aeterna Press puts out some good stuff.

>>12455466
incidentally what are those books on the top right? the ones that look like Victoria Bitters.

>>12455660
Books by Karl May. Only (old) Germans will know.

1/3 please don't judge the bookmarks, many of them are there for reference

2/3 side-shelf, mostly junk from high school and college

>>12453471
based

>>12454817
Great collection

3/3 pseud case, random borderline-display crap that I don't need to access on a regular basis

>>12455720
>Эйзeнштeйн

>>12455680
Interesting.

>His main protagonists are Winnetou and Old Shatterhand
Double interesting! Shatterhand is the codename/working title for the next Bond film.

>>12455717
thanks anon

>>12455720
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>>12455701
I like your main shelves. Low to the ground. Based, one could say. Any good histories of how the National Socialists rose to power in Weimar Germany?

>>12454817
>paperback Campbells

>>12455808
That's a first edition. And those Masks of God volumes have been read twice and holding up fine. Cease your upset. :^)

>>12455388
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>>12453996

i've been following this for a little while. its definitely someone larping, since the library that gets posted actually exists and offers a real service:

glowworm . blog/

>>12453328
Here's mine.

>>12455820
Being poor must be terrible.

>>12453471
god i can smell the insecurity

>>12455877
>poor
We're all in the 1% here anon. Nice shelves. Where the Blake? Chaucer? Milton?

>that hardcover Landmark Caesar
i-i'm not mad. you're mad...!

>>12455921
>hardcover Landmark Caesar
It's like 30 bucks, what are you pinkwojaking about?

>>12455929
I've been waiting for the paperback for like a year.

>>12455877
What's the No.1 greatest ancient coin then, anon? And do you agree with their judgement?

>>12453471
I think someone got cucked by a political scientist.

>>12455851

not my books

1/10

>>12456738

2/10

>>12456743

3/10

>>12453328
I only keep 30 at most.

>>12456750

4/10

>>12456778

5/10

>>12456788

6/10

>>12456795

7/10

>>12456857

8/10

>>12456861

9/10

>library
What a waste of space

>>12456867

10/10

pretty much my goals in life.

which should I throw out, and what should I replace them with? this is all the space I have

>>12456412
I don't remember what their number one pick is, but mine would be the Eides of March coin minted by Brutus and the Senate after the murder if Julius Caesar.

>>12455707
shoo shoo, leftist pig

>>12456875
Please, who wrote that Quadrivium book, anon?

>>12456875
Throw out all that pseud maculature and get some cute anime figurines.

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>>12456874
this is super nice. since I'm not interested in politics as much as you are but I'd like to have a specialized library too. maybe one focused on christianity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oojddCxCg_4

Hitch's Washington apartment.

>>12455877
Those Susan Wise Bauer ancient history book are excellent and comfy reads.

I'd like a house like this sometime

>>12457314
I'm currently reading here Well-Trained mind and considered buying those history books, should I do it then?

>>12457390
her**

>>12457390
Not that anon but yeah they're pretty comfy. I was put off by Bauer's robotic phrasing though. In writing about ancient conflicts and defensive victories she kept using the phrase 'and [so-and-so] beat them off'. She just kept repeating that ridiculous phrase so I dropped her.

>>12457373
Imagine all the book dust on your food

>>12457390
Yes, not as good as Edward Gibbon but definitely better than Mary Beard.

>>12456874
Needs more Hitler desu

>>12456973
I was going to ask about it as well

>>12458102
Same. Tell us anon.

>>12457408
well at least one room like that

Validate me :)

>>12458282
no homer no plato

>>12454817
I'm interested in those Loeb Greek Lyric editions. Are they subtitled "Being the Remains of All the Greek Lyric Poets from Eumelus to Timotheus, excepting Pindar?" I own pic related, and I'm curious about the differences between the two.

>>12458282
Learn Greek and buy some Loebs. Then I'll validate you.

I have too many genre fiction and scifi books on my shelves for /lit/ to like it

>>12456875
You got memed on the bicameral mind book

>>12453442
I feel this. I just stumble or say the most inane nonsense when I try to talk about anything I read or anything remotely intellectual.

At least I have the excuse that my library is only for me since I never have anyone over to show it off to.

>>12455388
Kek thanks for pointing this out. Good laughs to be had.

>>12458337
Plato is next to Spinoza and the odyssey is in between to Huysmans and Hardy

>>12458495
validated

>>12458206
>>12458102
>>12456973
Miranda Lundy
>>12458464
I realized that after the introduction

>>12453925
Not that guy, but what's wrong with these? I have a couple leatherbounds, they are pretty nice desu. Is it having a complete library of them that you don't like?

>>12458843
Not enough Heinlein /10.
read Double Star, and Cat Who Walks Through Walls

>>12454817

My own small Loeb collection has grown a bit in recent months. In some ways, it is the better part of my home library.

>>12458703
These bindings upset pseuds not only because they're new and lack any visible signs of wear, but because by virtue of being well-crafted hardcovers they're unlikely to accumulate them anytime soon. These are very disturbing qualities in books to your average il/lit/erati who yearns to demonstrate nicely creased and cracked "definitely perused and totally not pseud" paperback spines more than he wants to actually read the very pages they hold together. In their eyes investing in a sturdy luxurious leather or nicely decorated buckram bindings to please the owner's eye and provide the books with more longevity is antithetical to the one and only reason of owning physical books at all, that is to serve as an achievement display that would quickly and unambiguously communicate to two drunken girls and three college dudebros who visit their studio once a year just how authentically e/lit/e and genuinely well-read the owner is, whilst definitely not trying to pretend to want to hope to look like it. Plus of course the price factor also breaks some typical local self-imposed illusions of being a chosen member of some semi-secret class of penniless bohemian intellectuals engaged in cultural guerilla warfare on the back line of a grand army of philistine en-pee-see bougies, that so many younger members of /pol/ for smart people seem to be under. These are quite hilarious idiosyncrasies and I can wholeheartedly recommend skimming through some older shelf threads to find people both accusing someone of buying particular bindings to show off and chastising the others for not having their spines project the required aura of "well-readness" quite strong enough all in a single post.

DC master race reporting in

>>12459095
This was every single shelf thread, contained neatly in a single post. My hat is off to you, friend.

>>12459022
Nice Loebs. Can you read Greek, anon?

>>12459221
>Can you read Greek, anon?

Some. I have a ways to go before anything approaching fluency though.

>>12458282
>owning a book by Jacques Lacan
Yikes!

>German analog of Loeb costs €150-200 per volume
>forced to read classics in the barbaric tongue of island monkeys

>>12459095
I dislike them because they look bad and aren't well made.

>>12459259
You read the Greek anon. The English is just there in case you are at some stage unsure of yourself or get stuck.

>>12459272
And the pseud reveals himself.

>>12454817
Jesus christ talk about hermeneutics.

>>12457015
>>12455851

his reading lists that are up aren't bad. reminds me a little of cosma and his bactra blog

>>12453328

Yeahbro heres mine

>>12459272
In terms of entry-level press, you won’t find better quality than folio and pre-late-1980s Franklin Library.

>>12459272
I bet you can’t tell a glued binding from a smyth-sewn.

I have sold many of my books when I needed the money; I had kindle so I always could read what I wanted. I plan to repopulate my library, but mostly with books that I've already read IF they have an edition I like - I rarely like hardcovers, my ideal stuff are Vintage editions and those French Folio paperbacks. No large books, never. I will probably get Gene Wolfe in SF Masterworks edition - the cover design is hideous but the book itself is well-done.

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>>12459022
Those are beauties anon. Could you take a picture with the flash on so I can read the titles?

>>12458417
No subtitles except the specific authors, indicating their fragments and complete works. These are from around 1990-1991. Pindar is from circa 1997. I gather yours are some decades older. Lovely, how are they holding up?

>>12453328
>Big bang theory Funkos
>Bazongle

>>12459241
I'm a long way out too.
My friend reads Koine Greek very well and taught all his kids (homeschooled). Blows me away.

>>12459358
Yeah, mine were published in 1959. The dust jackets have seen better days, but the books themselves are in very good shape. Some shelf wear, but the text block and boards are good; no foxing or spotting and the text block hasn't sagged.

>>12459328
based and dickpilled

>>12453328
Is it possible to have a nice library if a lot of your books are paperback?

>>12459358
>Could you take a picture with the flash on so I can read the titles?

>>12459420
I didn't actually know these were still in print. All mine have come from antiquarian booksellers.

>>12459420
you're a good egg, anon, and these are beautiful. i'm supremely jealous.

>>12459400
I knew it. Loebs are immortal. Here's a pic from my Greek Lyric IV, Corinna and Bacchylides in case you wanted to compare translation.

>>12459338
I'm a hobbyist bookbinder.

>>12459095
Would read again. How does one avoid being a pseud. I feel like I try not to be one that it's all I think I am.
Is knowing that one can be a pseud make it so you can't be a pseud or is that just pseud thinking.

>>12459576
Have a genuine interest. That's all. The rest doesn't matter, especially /lit/. :^)

>>12458703
They look like someone cared more about the physical books than their contents.

>>12454016
???

>>12455466
I have that same globe, given to me as a gift from someone who regretted buying it. don't let the haters get to you globebro

>>12454416
Thanks for the update, Anon! We were all wondering when you would check in. Safe travels and hope you get a chance to post. You got your wish. The thread is still up!

>>12460092
>I live in a concrete box because I only care about function
>I only wear clothing I’ve made out of reclaimed burlap sacks, because I only care about function
>I drive a 20-year old PT Cruiser because I only care about function

>>12461356
but sincerely

>>12461361
That’s a sad existence anon. Embrace aesthetics.

>>12461397
Function and aesthetics coincide. You just have bad taste.

>>12461404
>t. minimalism connoisseur
You have to go back to /g/eddit.

>>12458703
>>12459095
>>12459272
There's nothing wrong with hardcover or leatherbound books, but having an entire collection of gilt edged shiny titled large print kitsch editions is shameful.

>>12461455
Why?

>>12461462
I personally think they're ugly. A good hardcover is subtle and modest, just like good clothing: it's all about material and make, not aggressive glamor. I do have a couple glamor type hardcovers, but usually with pertinent books; for example, I have a gilt edged kitschy Canterbury Classics edition of major American political writing with a hideous faux green pleather cover emblazoned with a sparkling American flag and I feel that the aesthetic physicality of the book matches its contents to some degree, speaking towards the kind of Costco proliferatively excessive America which Baudrillard briefly describes in his Apocalypse Now essay.

>>12461514
So it's just a question of taste, not an actual objective argument for why it's shameful. Pro-tip: not everything that is too opulent for your new world mass-market victim's eyes is "kitschy". Books have been gilded for centuries.

>>12461575
Those books look beautiful. Surely you're not trying to draw a comparison?

>>12461584
>gilt edged shiny titled large print kitsch
>oh no no no but these antique ones are very good and patrician and surely incomparable
Thanks for playing.

>>12461599
But those books look like they are well made and made by artists. The ones posted looked like they were made by machines and designed by randos.

>>12461618
>soul
>soulless
Yeah, I got your gist, pseudbro.

>>12461575
>an actual objective argument for why it's shameful
No such thing on any subject, really. You'd think that somebody who collects books would have read enough to understand epistemological ambiguity and would find personal aesthetic truth to be something worth articulating.

Also, the books in this post are pretty in my eyes for the reasons noted by other anon: >>12461584 >>12461618
>>12461599
>>12461628
Wow, straight to name calling. I'm sorry that I made you embarrassed about your collection. If you were actually interested in playing, you would throw an overwritten retort back at me -- that's more fun than vulgar shitposting, isn't it?

>>12461514
>>12461665
To clarify, this is an old picture of the Canterbury Classics book I own. Do you better understand how perfectly hideous it is, and how such hideousness is perhaps inappropriate to other works?

>>12461692
>Thinking leatherette Canterbury Classics with non-archival paper and glued bindings compares to 1970s Franklins.

>>12461692
Not in this argument but I like that book. The shade of green is stately and reminiscent of marble slab you would see in a bank, the institution upon which America has always depended. The gilding enhances the effect, and brings to mind a book of law. Which this is.

>>12461692
There is nothing -- objectively NOTHING -- ugly or wrong about the stars and bars. White male deport thyself.

>>12461798
See >>12461599
>>12461800
Fair enough: that is an actual aesthetic judgment, actually articulated, rather than descending to ape rhetoric and attempting to brute force the opposition into agreeing.
>>12461816
kys

>>12453442
I don’t know how to apply my literary knowledge/experience in real life.

>>12461798
Yeah, Canterbury Classics have more in common with Barnes and Noble pleather editions than semi-fine presses like Easton and Franklin. Although Easton has had some low quality lines in the early 2000s.

>>12456875
Throw out everything on the left side of the top shelf, up to and including The Red Book. Jung is okay but his personal mystical journey is poison to any other seeker.

>>12461838
grinch_devilhorns_unfurl.gif

>>12453328
>serious collection
That's for decoration, not reading

>>12461816
Anon, you know the "stars and bars" is the confederate battle flag right? The U.S. flag is called "stars and stripes", a small but important difference.

Or maybe you were trolling or something, idk.

>>12461870
Listen buddy you use your words how you like and I'll do the same and none of us goes home with a busted lip, savvy?

>>12461665
>embarrassed about your collection
I'm not even the anon who posted it. Just here to mock all your pseudo-sophisticated sensibilities combined with lack of any actual taste or discernment in bookbinding. It's hilarious that you would insist that the French books above is somehow intangibly and inarticulably, yet also apparently unmistakably different and more "artisanal" than Franklins, while simultaneously arguing that the latter have a lot in common with your bonded leather glued binding shirt-print discounter constitution copy.

>>12455851
based on the pictures, i don't think it's the same guy I'm thinking of. different types of shelves, different space. and the website is not the blog I'm referring to, it was a personal blog with multiple longer articles about politics, philosophy, etc.

>>12453328
>who has the incest library on /lit?
'nicest' should be struck from the dictionary

>>12461892
These are my attempts at articulating what I find beautiful. You are still attempting to appeal to objective standards of taste, whereas I am conveying how I feel in relation to the subject of discussion. Your objectivity obsession is misled.

>>12461270
>Rivvy Saucer front and center
based lad. that norton is cakes too. hey and i read that edition of the stand when i was like 12, in 1990something. i give this shelf five laurel crowns with words in 'em.

>>12461986
>backpedaling this hard
So your initial comment was "it's shameful to have things I don't like"?

>>12453328
I live in a rural area with a 2 room library. Very 80s looking. Would be comfy if it weren't for the loonies from the assisted living facility coming in to watch porn on the computer.

>>12461892
>>12462005
10/10, would read this
argument again.

>>12462005
Try actually reading what I said, e.g.
>>12461514
>I personally think they're ugly.
>>12461665
>>an actual objective argument for why it's shameful
>No such thing on any subject, really. You'd think that somebody who collects books would have read enough to understand epistemological ambiguity and would find personal aesthetic truth to be something worth articulating.

>>12458843
mirin that dick

>>12454416
I need an update on this

>>12454416
I can't speak for other anons but personally I'm getting a bit worried. Where are you bro?

>>12462297
>tee hee no such thing as objective
Piss off with your timid sophistry, nigger. Declaring something to be shameful or kitschy is in itself appealing to baseline consensual norm of beauty in society, which is the objective kernel from which the individual subjective grows. Either learn what the very epithets you use mean or don't use them at all, not on a literature board of all places.

>>12459475
Post your work then champ

>>12455877
Dreadful

>>12453444
goat

nice trips

>>12455707
>chess
>trotsky
>marlboro blacks

now this is good

>>12453328
You can tell somebody doesn't read when they pile knick-knacks in front of their books.

>>12455509
Are you autistic about autism?

>>12455466
Do those little lights slide along two electrified wires?

>>12462489
>Declaring something to be shameful or kitschy is in itself appealing to baseline consensual norm of beauty in society, which is the objective kernel from which the individual subjective grows
You've got it backwards, the societal norm of beauty is an aggregative of individual subjectivities discussed into a consensus reality. By making aesthetic judgments I attempt to alter the popular concept of beauty but I am aware that my personal particular judgments are not absolute. You have everything backwards.

>>12463318
based and greekpilled

>>12463318
>X is conjunction of every superset of X
Jesus, why do people who can't into basic set theory try to philosophize. You have your ass and your brain backwards.

>>12458282
I hope your having a fun time at uni

>>12463907
I’m not at uni but you should probably go so you can learn the difference between you’re and your

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>>12453615
All those fancy books on Ikea shelving

Lmao duck off to Reddit

>>12457015
It's a bookstore retard

>>12463993
>phone poster telling someone to go back
The state of this fucking board

>>12463907
*you're

>>12453471
I got a screen I can sell you for all that projection

>>12454941
pics or it didn't happen

This is one of my shelves. I think it's enough to make me king of the pseuds.

>>12458282
Very nice, but not enough buy and read more and more

>>12464996
>pair of blue balls on the shelf
how is that tarot book

>>12456875
>Durant
Based

>>12454061
Not the same guy, but I was hurt by people I thought were my friends. It is painful.

>>12464452
It is, because it's most of the books I own and on an identical IKEA shelf and I am also a pseud.

>>12464452
can you take a better quality picture of the first two shelves?
you have a really nice collection

>>12465838
post shelf

>>12465517
Not my shelf just saved it and re posted because i really like the taste of the owner. I cant post my own for the the reason i do not own a shelf or any books and am a kindle reader which i loath. Do to the dilemma of my job that forces me to travel and not be in one place for more than a couple of months.

>>12465517
ive read parts of it and its ok 7/10. It's tarot taken from a christian perspective. So too much religion infused into the tarot. However it does do it from a gnostic christian angle so it redeems itself somewhat.

>>12455701
Too close to the floor imo. Gets dusty fast. I would suggest using the lower shelves for other purposes but you seem to be in desperate need of book space

>>12454817
>stolen library books

>>12453407
Does /lit/ spark joy?

1/2

2/2

>>12467150
Galicians deserve the rope

>>12464996
Thanks, it’s a fairly old photo so it’s not a comprehensive/up-to-date picture of my collection. I’ve been very interesting in digging into the I Ching and other eastern philosophies/divination practises - any particular recommendations for editions/translations/secondary reading?

>>12453328
>putting all those fucking trinkets and blocks and shit on your bookshelf
>patrician tier
Fucking disgusting..

I have a house but it's way too small for any of this. Kind of sad. Where the hell do you people all live?

>>12455877
>Wine for Dummies
>he actually bought this
lmfao

>>12458843
Is that Russian in 3 Months effective, anon?

>>12467144
I unironically love large Penguin collections

Out of date pic now and I mostly resist the urge to post in these threads now but: pic related. Will share detail pics if requested.

>>12467671
>Pretty nice room, shelves
>Splatter paint garbage
>Fucking crates
Shit anon, get it together

>>12467671
whats inside the wooden box in the milk crate

and you posted this multiple times like three weeks ago you big draugr keeping pseud

>>12467671
Hey glowworm, impressive collection. What's the make and model of the samurai sword? (And the dagger if you don't mind)

>>12453972
When /pol/ reads

>>12467803
It's the "I did drugs and knew art majors in college but now I'm busy trying to make slightly less shit pay" aesthetic
>>12467844
>whats inside the wooden box in the milk crate
It's my best chess board, woefully unusued currently (along with the other chessboards and my Go set)
>and you posted this multiple times like three weeks ago you big draugr keeping pseud
Yeah I had newly redecorated and then kept spamming. I might redecorate again today though, my miscellaneous book piles are getting cluttered and I can at least drop the Ganesha on the top shelf

>>12455870
based and presentdaypilled

>>12467850
The sword (not Japanese, I don't think) trickled down to my dad from my estranged grandfather because the wife didn't know what to do with it. First knife is a kukri that could've come from really anywhere when I travelled when I was younger, second knife is a Brusletto hunting knife.

>>12467671
Also, how is the weather in NM? I visited Annapolis for a tour and almost went but chose another road.

>>12465517
>>12464996

This is my shelf actually. I’d highly recommend Meditations on the Tarot, it’s one of the best and most devout spiritual books ever.
>>12466061

Well it’s a book about Catholicism so yeah religion is the central subject, and it’s absolutely not gnostic, in fact it is carefully written to appear as a new age gnostic hermeticism, but these words have very specific meanings to the author related to the Christian life rather than actual gnosticism

>>12467884
Could you post a pic of the sword? I might be able to identify it for you.

>>12467890
By the way, I'm Catholic too. Considered becoming a Jesuit in high school but always hated Vatican II. Got a very expensive pamphlet, for donation.

>>12467884
Who is the artist on the wall, by the way? I like the colors and the pallete.

>>12453328
who else /weaponized reading space/?

>>12467921

Especially new criterion. Grandfather used to go elephant hunting. Still has ivory in his study.

>>12467923
Who else not mindin their own business?

>>12467895
Detail pic coming up
>>12467910
He's drifted away from color afaik but goes for a kind of intentional infantilism, like his work is abstractly childish on purpose. iirc these were the first canvas paintings he ever did, and you could find similar stuff in any undergrad art department

>>12467895
>>12468052
Second pic, I have very low expectations as to its quality or authenticity

>>12456743
is that machiavelli book a good read? I have Discourse of Livy

I don’t own shelves

>>12468098
/fa/

>>12468052
Not a firangi because it is curved. Looks like an officer's talwar. I thought at first Chinese (because of the handle) but the pattern doesn't look Chinese.

Looks like it's in good enough condition to sell and make a good buck. But if its an heirloom, I understand completely.

I will reply to the artist comment in another post.

>>12455877
>>12467392
>

>buyfaggots think having a few hundred books is impressive
I have about 3,000 pirated e-books and they don't even clutter up my apartment with a bunch of dusty heavy ass piles of overpriced paper.
FACT: anyone with a physical library is a pseud trying to impress the roasties they lust over, who will never visit their neetcave in the first place. Buyfagging is for incels.

>>12468334
I have literally had a girl tell me she loved my books while I was balls deep in her

You will never know that feel

>>12467671
Trip's a good book. Tao kind of rambles about McKenna for too long but I liked the later passages about social media addiction. Valis is a little wordy but one of my favorite PKD novels (if you can call it that). I like the mortars and pestles, can tell you experiment with traditional medicine. Tried Lions Mane but it didn't do shit.

I have a fascination with mushrooms myself. If you're in New Orleans, let me know. These faggots don't know the good spots.

As for the paintings, if you have any of his older one's keep them. They might be worth something someday.

>>12468372
i have literally had a girl tell me she missed my cock and you will never know that feel

>>12468404
It is better to be feared than loved.

>>12468334
but having a nice bookshelf is so much comfier than having a soulless chunk of plastic. haven't you ever had friends mire your bookshelf before? it's a nice feeling.

>>12468414
My bad, meant that for this cool new england boarding school faggot.
>>12468080

>>12468052
I'm a glowworm too. Also a snapping turtle, but an alligator snapping turtle. They bite hard, but they're harmless when you get to know them.

Later, gator.

>>12468427
Don't need to. I just start dropping my latest reading material and they mire from my words alone.

>>12468409
Did she miss it because you never had one in the first place?

>>12468497
I never got any girls drunk and raped them. Pretty certain some kids on the baseball team did though. I know a guy on lax who did, used to call him coke-face.

Some dogs bark, some dogs bite.

>>12468435
Gave that as a gift. To someone I thought was my friend.

Oh well, he can keep it.

>>12459259
What is the german analog of loeb?

>>12468535
>What is the german analog of loeb?

Sammlung Tusculum?

>>12453328
>>12453444
>>12453490
>>12453615
>>12453626
>>12453972
>>12454817
>>12455466
>>12455509
>>12455701
>>12455707
>>12455720
>>12455877
>>12456738
>>12456743
>>12456750
>>12456778
>not sorting your books by colour

>>12468760

>not keeping your books in the fridge

>>12461356
>>I drive a 20-year old PT Cruiser because I only care about function

Bad choice

>>12468509
You’re not a dog, you’re a pussy

>>12469230
Are you claiming that PT cruisers aren’t the ugliest car ever made?

>>12469299
check signal.

>>12468535
Hiersemann's BGL

Just reorganized to fight the scattered stacks throughout the house. Detail pics to come.
>>12467888
Close but not quite
>>12468404
I was a little frustrated with Trip because it read too much like how I probably sounded when I was first experimenting. It's basically just semi-novice internet drug culture distilled into book.

Will do in regards to the paintings.
>>12467850
>>12468428
Also: glowworm?

post a glowing detail pic of your pee bottles, wormy boy

>>12469507
>carlos castaneda
based

>>12468334
I have only 57000 books in my original language, 3000 is rookie numbers for a pirate.

Besides, having a good library that doesn't need electricity is a good idea.

Started reading about a year ago. Not pictured: the importance of being earnest, heart of darkness, and the sirens of titan. Recs are appreciated :)

>>12469610
>that doesn't need electricity is a good idea.
I live somewhere that doesn't experience regular brownouts. Try moving out of the favela.
If the power went out here for any extended period of time, I'd have bigger issues than finding reading material to occupy my time. But I guess being in the stone age is a regular occurrence for you that you're willing to structure your entire life around the assumption of.

>>12469688
>no greeks
leave this board

>>12469688

>>12469688
Pretty basic stuff. Consider exploring the greeks and russian lit, also drop Peterson pls.

>>12468760

>>12469688
peak basic /lit/ bitch

>>12468098
is that bloom’s the western canon?

>>12465911
>12465911
Since the thread is still alive, sure.

>>12453328
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

>>12455466
this screams new world kitsch. a middle class american's idea of tasteful. probably a basement.

>>12471295

take your pilgrim in this world, vale of tears, all is illusion and abstraction and city of god bullshit and shove it up your retarded ascetic ass

this world is my home, and i shall adorn accordingly.

>>12471295
*sprays treasures with Rustoleum paint*

>>12469355
They also lack function. Real function over form lads drive economy jap shitboxes.

>>12471304
>this world is my home
more like a short wait at a bus station anon, don't get too comfortable

>>12468098
>That unread Quixote that will stay brand new forever
>Infinite meme
>Shelves are too mainstream

Its like pottery

>>12468098
but what happens if it gets cold

>>12469688
/r/books

>>12471824
What makes you think it’s unread

Pls no bully

oops

>>12454817
endgame shit

>>12472963
Really gay little labels

>>12469688
>Rand
>Peterson
>Stoner
>No More Mr Nice Guy

>>12473242
What's wrong with Stoner?

>>12454817
absolutely in awe of the gnosis of this lad

>>12473249
It's a middling pedestrian book that is memed far too much here because equally boring and unoriginal English lit majors empathize with the protagonist.

>>12458843
Is that an A. Wyatt Mann figurine on your books?

>>12473516
You didn't mention anything wrong with the actual text. You don't like it because you don't like it?

>>12473535
>wrong with the actual text
There's nothing "wrong" with the text, it's just not nearly outstanding enough to justify the amount of attention it gets here.

>>12472963
>>12473135
I found them cute and helpful

>>12455877
>Being poor must be terrible.
Not really. My socialist country has got me covered with its free public libraries.

>>12471847
I burn the books, duh

>>12474020
Looks like your shithole of a country doesn't have a single book on socialism.

>>12474072
What makes you say that?

>>12474223
Social-democractic government in a capitalist country doesn't make a country socialist, swedecuck.

>>12474280
>Social-democractic government in a capitalist country doesn't make a country socialist
Socialism is about ''managing'' capitalism, instead of completely abolishing it, so technically, it does make it into one if they ''manage their capitalism''. Besides, Social-democracy is by and large a result of leftist policies, which in turn more often than not have their roots in socialist thought.

>swedecuck
Missed me.

>>12474349
Too many words to say "you're right, anon, my country isn't socialist". You're welcome to visit the USA if you don't want to live with half measures any longer, cucky.

>>12474390
>Too many words to say "you're right, anon, my country isn't socialist"
You could've just typed ''this is not an argument''.

>You're welcome to visit the USA if you don't want to live with half measures any longer
No thx. I'd rather have smallpox than set my foot into your unholy land. Go clean your room, bucko.

>>12464452

Nice Process and Reality, fren